lake

Also known as lakes

thumb|upright=1.1|Lake Idro, an Italian [[prealpine lake of glacial origin situated largely within the province of Brescia (Lombardy) and in part in Trentino.]] thumb|upright=1.1|Sunset over Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes in [[Manistee National Forest, Michigan, United States|alt=Sunset over Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes in Manistee National Forest, Michigan, United States.]]

OverviewAI-generated

A lake is a landform classified as a still water body. In OpenStreetMap, it is tagged as "water=lake". The subject is studied by the field of limnology. It appears in the Commons category "Lakes" and has a corresponding gallery. The topic is associated with the template "Infobox lake" and is listed on the Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 focus list.

The concept is described by sources including the Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It has equivalent classes in DBpedia and Schema.org. The entry in abbreviations tables is "оз.". PubMed records a count of 197472 for the query "lake". Additionally, the topic is referenced by 12,396 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

197,472 papers

Lake heatwaves under climate change.Nature · 2021Woolway RI, Jennings E, Shatwell T et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03119-1
Microorganisms of Lake Baikal-the deepest and most ancient lake on Earth.ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology · 2020Zemskaya TI, Cabello-Yeves PJ, Pavlova ON et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10660-6
Egyptian coastal lakes; A state of the art review for Lake Idku.ReviewMarine pollution bulletin · 2024Nada A, Wahba M, Sharaan MDOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117264
The changing water quality of lakes-a case study of Dal Lake, Kashmir Valley.ReviewEnvironmental monitoring and assessment · 2022Kumar R, Parvaze S, Huda MB et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10661-022-09869-x
A review on the research progress of lake water volume estimation methods.ReviewJournal of environmental management · 2022An C, Zhang F, Chan NW et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115057
Anthropogenic PAHs in lake sediments: a literature review (2002-2018).ReviewEnvironmental science. Processes & impacts · 2018Du J , Jing C DOI: 10.1039/c8em00195b
Microbiology of Lonar Lake and other soda lakes.ReviewThe ISME journal · 2013Antony CP, Kumaresan D, Hunger S et al.DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.137
Microplastics in Flathead Lake, a large oligotrophic mountain lake in the USA.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2022Xiong X, Tappenbeck TH, Wu C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119445

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Encyclopedic overview

36 sections

Contents

Etymology, meaning, and usage of "lake"
Distribution
Types
Tectonic lakes
Volcanic lakes
Glacial lakes
Fluvial lakes
Oxbow lakes
Fluviatile dams
Lateral lakes
Floodplain lakes
Solution lakes
Landslide lakes
Aeolian lakes
Shoreline lakes
Organic lakes
Peat lakes
Artificial lakes
Meteorite (extraterrestrial impact) lakes
Other classification methods
By thermal stratification
By seasonal variations in water level and volume
By water chemistry
Composed of other liquids
Paleolakes
Characteristics
Limnology
Biological properties
Disappearance
Extraterrestrial lakes
Notable lakes on Earth
Largest by continent
See also
Notes
References
External links

A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, like other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water, but in total cover approximately 2.5 X 106 km2 (less than 2%) of the Earth's surface.

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